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You must work to gain a good vantage point on this office bulding beside the downtown library. But it's worth it. I believe the original grand plans by Brooks McCabe and crew did not quite pan out -- not enough tenants or something? Still, the curvaceous glass is a welcome addition to a cityscape full of too many right angles and sharp edges. One reason among many, I aver, that the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim building in Bilbao, Spain, caused such a sensation was because it is full of curves, bends and soft corners as buildings usually never are. (This is also why rounded windows catch and capture our attention so powerfully.) Isn't it odd that nature is full of curves, meanders and sinuous lines, yet the man-made world is all rigid grids and angles? Ask me why men have so screwed up the world...